The US Navy ordering a pair of ships into the Black Sea is a mistake. Two ships can do nothing in Russia’s backyard but blunder the nation into an ill advised war that we are unprepared to fight.
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F15s over NOLA
As I type this, I am sitting in New Orleans. A pair of F-15s just flew down Canal street at the Mississippi River at an altitude low enough to read tail markings from the 20th floor of my hotel.
More on NOLA when I return home on Wednesday.
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SCOTUS packing EO
Biden signed an EO today to establish a commission to study packing the Supreme Court. I wonder when they will declare him to be Chancellor.
Communism
Gulags are here
The people being held due to their arrests stemming from the January 6 incident are being beaten and tortured by guards while in custody, reports Politico.
One Capitol riot defendant, Ryan Samsel, was severely beaten by correctional officers, is now blind in one eye, has a skull fracture, and detached retina. One of the prisoners reports that a guard declared, “I hate all white people and your honky religion.”
One attorney remarked that his client was taken to an area of the jail that was out of sight of security cameras, then beaten by guards. “I have seen Ryan. He has two black eyes to this day, two weeks later. All the skin is ripped off both wrists, which shows the zip ties and how tight they were,” said the attorney.
We continue to edge ever closer to the concentration camp phase, it is unreal.
Presidency
Executive Actions
Biden claims that tomorrow, he will sign an Executive Order requiring people to undergo a background check when buying a so-called “ghost gun.” I want to know just how that will happen.
Will he declare that an 80% lower is now a firearm? OK, so then a company will make 75% lowers. Are you going to outlaw paperweights? I just don’t see that working out.
Or will he make it illegal to sell a home made firearm? How would this be enforced? Will it work as well as making it illegal to sell unregistered drugs?
Even if he does issue it, any executive order he signs will have to clear the same hurdle as Trump’s bump stock ban. The courts have already ruled that an EO can’t be used to make law.
I guess we find out tomorrow.
COVID
Lies
I saw this article about COVID hospitals seeing more serious cases.
My hospital had a COVID floor. They didn’t have enough patients, so they reduced it to one wing of a single floor. That was no longer occupied enough, so they reduced it to a single hallway of a single wing. Now there are now only 6 COVID patients in my hospital.
I can do math. The article linked above says that the B.1.1.7 strain has 16,275 active infections. It also, the article claims, is the dominant strain and represents 26% of all active COVID cases. Doing a bit of math, that works out to 62,596 cases. So they are saying that there are under 63,000 COVID cases nationwide.
That hardly sounds like the big emergency they are claiming. What tells me they are full of crap is the same article claiming that there are 64,000 new cases each day. The math doesn’t support that.
Crime
Facts don’t lie
A woman in Memphis became angry at Burger King employees because she believed that they were too slow in preparing her food. So she decided to get out of her car, lean in the drive through window, and began spraying bullets throughout the store.
Blacks make up 13% of the US population, but commit 53% of the homicides, 54% of the robberies, 33% of violent crime, and 43% of illegal weapons possession. In fact, Blacks are overrepresented in every category of crime in the US, except for DUI and public intoxication.
That isn’t racism, it is just fact.
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Battery
Imagine a cell phone that never needs to be recharged.
Oops- now the landfill is radioactive.
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Quote of the week
In honor of our loss of one of the greatest speakers of my lifetime, I present to you Rush Limbaugh’s quote of the week:
For government to give, it must first take away.
Purge of history
Orwell
The quote that used to grace the top of this blog was from George Orwell’s 1984. It went like this:
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
There are those who are fighting the good fight and are trying to prevent our history from being erased, those who are trying to push back. I hope to be counted among them, even in some small part.